Nov. 15, 2017
08:14 am JST

Students have been lured by money and other rewards to attend government events to promote public understanding linked to hosting final disposal sites for high-level radioactive nuclear waste, one of the organizers said Tuesday.

So the Nucler Waist Management of Japan, along with the Indusrtry minister, have hired students who are not land owners to convince the public how safe it is to burry high-level radioactive waist throughout Japan.

Nov. 15, 2017
10:55 am JST

It was stopped in the end, but when my town tried to push through an unwanted development about ten years ago, they insisted they had gone through the proper procedure and there had been a "public hearing", a phrase said in katakana and prominently used with relish as if it were the new all-conquering buzzword in local politics. No residents had heard about any such meeting, so if one had happened, it must have been insiders or stooges only.

Nov. 15, 2017
11:33 am JST

Nov. 15, 2017
11:50 am JST

How is this different form the paid protestors at anti-security bill and anti-Okinawa base protests... move along...

there is something called "right and wrong". as an ex-doorman, you should at least have some instinct. nuclear waste takes from our lifetime to infinity to cause chaos on the health of animals and nature. we don't need to care about human life, as it seems the official practice of japanese politicians is to not care.

NB. what proof do you have about paid protesters? I've never been paid, in fact i give time and donate my money. my choice. no corruption.

Nov. 15, 2017
01:34 pm JST

Did anyone use an electric train or subway to go to the meeting, etc? No, they used their bicycles. Did anyone use a mobile to take pictures? No, they used hand-help generators to charge the phone. Did anyone use hand made paper on which he/she printed the message distributed to the public, then hold a sign so the TV coverage can show the message through free publicity? "You can't have your cake and eat it, too." Conservation of mass. Japan needs nuclear energy or a drain on of yen to buy oil to be used to make electricity.

Nov. 15, 2017
02:03 pm JST

Possible attempt? This is a blatant attempt at perverting the outcome through bribery and favouritism. Oh. hang on! This is Japan. I forgot that this is how things are done in Japan.

@noriyosan73 - Did anyone use an electric train or subway to go to the meeting, etc? No, they used their bicycles. Did anyone use a mobile to take pictures? No, they used hand-help generators to charge the phone. Did anyone use hand made paper on which he/she printed the message distributed to the public, then hold a sign so the TV coverage can show the message through free publicity? "You can't have your cake and eat it, too." Conservation of mass. Japan needs nuclear energy or a drain on of yen to buy oil to be used to make electricity.

Ah, you should have taken the blue pill. Japan has been without nuclear power for 6.5 years. I don't recall any power blackouts, do you? And, today they stated the economy has grown, which totally destroys your arguments of how fossil fuels drain the economy. Furthermore, let me add to your false perspective, nearly all of Japan's reactors will reach their use-by dates in the next decade or so, which means they all have to be upgraded or decommissioned at huge expense. Nuclear power is not clean, cheap or safe, no matter what you learned from the Japanese media Matrix. Then, after that sinks in, we can move onto nuclear waste. The highly radioactive debris from the meltdowns at Fukushima will cover 15 square kilometers after is has all been gathered. Cars, trucks, shops, houses, apartment blocks, factories, construction machinery and a few million tons of soil all have to be stored on land that used to be fertile farmland. All this is without counting the actual spent fuel rods that stay radioactive for up to a thousand years. These need to be stored and cooled in a safe housing that requires constant monitoring. Yeah, fossil fuels create CO2 and contribute to climate change, but nuclear power is much worse and leaves a much dirtier stain on the planet.